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Pome: The Lights Of Ocean Drive, South Beach, Miami

Pome: The Lights Of Ocean Drive, South Beach, Miami

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Jun 18, 2025
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Show Kid Paradise anything more beautiful. Pic: Paradisio Publishing

The Lights Of Ocean Drive, South Beach, Miami

and the lights stay on along Ocean Drive

the hotels glimmer and the luminosity runs a blocks-long parade of reds and limegreens and pinks and brightoranges and whites that jig like we all do jig

and the Atlantic laps the fringes of the shore of South Beach

and the sky is a different painting individual to each individual during each celestial sunrise,

the breeze a harpiscord in E major, fluttering skittering notes of zephyrs and siroccos and whispers and lost dreams

the Carlyle Hotel lit the hue of cornleaves gone gold

the Cardozo Hotel pageants crimson on the groundfloor, mauve for its storeys

and notions of art float the mind

and i stop to sup from a fountain by the sand

the faucet silver and cold 

a slake through the millennia of all the waters of all the earth

the horizon over the Atlantic a wreath, a poesy, a jubilee of cerises, skyblues, of the fantasies retained;

and a dude, a homeless dude, bless him, approaches muttering tongues of the lost and hopeless and the hopeful and the hopefuelled

and many more people are psychotic than they realise

are cut off from themselves, cut off from who they have become - from this cutting;

and i run through the dawn, the precious sunrise, the incandescent starshowers

and see DecoDriveCigars

Valet Parking at Hilton Grand Vacation Club

Crescent On South Beach

877-456-PARK

and one idea of art that grips is:

FOR ETERNITY 

or a

second

because like the known tides 

you need all of time to scribe all of the poesy

or zero;

and the best thing Buk penned was when he went to Paris and said:

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